mellifluous
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Is mellifluous a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (figurative) Sweet, smooth and musical; pleasant to hear (generally used of a person's voice, tone or writing style).Examples: "[…] Socrates […] VVisest of men; from vvhose mouth issued forth / Mellifluous streams that vvater'd all the schools / Of Academicks old and nevv […]"; "Join'd to Theſe [birds], / Thouſands beſide, thick as the covering Leaves / VVhich ſpeck them o'er, their Modulations mix / Mellifluous."; "No verses can be more mellifluous than Petrarch's: something of this will perhaps be attributed to the softness of the Italian language; but the English tongue is also capable of it, however obstinately Johnson may have pronounced otherwise."Synonyms: birdsweet, dulcet, euphonious, mellifluentfiguratively
Definition source: Wiktionary